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The bust of Piotr Wysocki, [a] also known as the Piotr Wysocki Monument, [b] is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, located in the Royal Baths Park, within the Downtown district. The sculpture consists of a bronze bust depicting Piotr Wysocki, a 19th-century military officer, a colonel in the Army of Congress Poland, and one of the organisers and commanders of the November Uprising.
The cast was then dipped 20 or more times into a ceramic slurry to form the molds into which 6,000 pounds (2.7 t) of bronze, melted in a crucible, were poured, 400 pounds (180 kg) at a time. These bronze blocks were sand blasted, fitted, and welded together to form the final sculpture.
A bronze bust of Jabotinsky by Johan Oldert was presented to the Metzudat Ze'ev in Tel Aviv in 2008 and remains on display. [77] A mural of a young Jabotinsky was unveiled in his birthplace of Odesa on the house where he was born in April 2021. [78] It was unveiled by mayor of Odesa Hennadii Trukhanov and Israeli ambassador to Ukraine Joel Lion ...
The John Donne Memorial is a bronze bust of John Donne by Nigel Boonham, installed in the garden to the south of St Paul's Cathedral in London, United Kingdom. Donne faces east towards his birthplace on Bread Street. Below the bust is an inscription with the text
Burns Monument at the poet's birthplace, Alloway This is a list of over sixty known memorials (statues, busts, fountains, buildings and street names) to the Scottish poet Robert Burns. Of these, the oldest outdoor statue is given to be at Camperdown, Victoria, Australia (1830). Dumfries town centre statue Scotland Burns Monument, Edinburgh Statue by John Flaxman, Scottish National Portrait ...
Upon his return from France to his hometown Florence in 1545, Benvenuto cast a bronze bust of Cosimo I Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The decorative head located on the right shoulder of this bust is a self-portrait of Cellini, composed with lineaments of satyr, lion and man. [ 9 ]
Edwin Everett Codman (December 19, 1876 – April 29, 1955) was an American sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. [1]
The bronze bust focuses on the head and neck with only a brief shoulder-line visible before the squared-off base. At a height of 31.5 inches (80 cm) it is a particularly large and heavy sculpture. It has been noted as being an "almost goddess-like" depiction of the model, sharply contrasting the usual dark, distorted, and aggressive. [ 1 ]